Taiwan Sugar Shanhua pineapple popsicle missed the label for two ingredients, and the number of bacteria in the Hsinchu ice cream shop exceeded the standard. Each was fined NT$30,000.

The Food and Drug Administration today announced the results of an inspection of the edible ice and ice product manufacturing industry. The pineapple popsicles produced by the Taiwan Sugar Shanhua Enterprise Union were omitted from the ingredient label of dextrin and potassium chloride. The Tainan City Health Bureau fined the company NT$30,000 for violating the Food Safety and Hygiene Management Act.

The Food and Drug Administration stated that it worked with local health bureaus to inspect 63 manufacturers and randomly inspected 119 product labels. Among them, 3 manufacturers had a total of 6 products that did not comply with regulations. The pineapple popsicles produced by the Taiwan Sugar Shanhua Enterprise Union did not list the ingredients one by one according to the raw material label. The entire case was also found to include deficiencies in hygiene management at the workplace, failure to set up hygiene management personnel and other violations, resulting in a total fine of 450,000 yuan.

In terms of random inspections, the Food and Drug Administration inspected a total of 105 pieces of edible ice cubes, ice products and raw materials. Among them, red bean ice and mung bean ice from Quanren Ice and Fruit Store in Zhudong Town, Hsinchu County, were found to exceed the standard of Enterobacteriaceae in repeated sampling, which were 3.4 times and 3.5 times the standard value respectively. The Hsinchu County Health Bureau imposed a fine of NT$30,000. The remaining 103 items were in compliance with the regulations.

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